AMIGO—A Socially Assistive Robot for Coaching Multimodal Training of Persons with Dementia

Paletta, Lucas; Schüssler, Sandra; Zuschnegg, Julia; Steiner, Josef; Pansy-Resch, Sandra; Lammer, Lara; Prodromou, Dimitrios; Brunsch, Sebastian; Lodron, Gerald; Fellner, Maria

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17107-0_13

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“…A broad range of stakeholders are participants in the different studies ranging from informal carers such as relatives ( Johnson et al, 2020 ; Zuschnegg et al, 2021 ) over healthcare professionals such as nurses and clinicians ( Paletta et al, 2019 ; Johnson et al, 2020 ; Zuschnegg et al, 2021 ) to the target users such as older people with or without MCI ( Wu et al, 2016 ; Paletta et al, 2019 ; Johnson et al, 2020 ). While healthcare professionals and informal carers see reminders as a relevant service task for social robots in care contexts ( Johnson et al, 2020 ; Zuschnegg et al, 2021 ) and point out a number of different reminding functions like activities of daily living (ADL), medication or food and drinking, target users are less positive about reminding functions for robots.…”

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When a notification at the right time is not enough: the reminding process for socially assistive robots in institutional care

Rehm,

Krummheuer

2024

Front. Robot. AI

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Reminding is often identified as a central function of socially assistive robots in the healthcare sector. The robotic reminders are supposed to help people with memory impairments to remember to take their medicine, to drink and eat, or to attend appointments. Such standalone reminding technologies can, however, be too demanding for people with memory injuries. In a co-creation process, we developed an individual reminder robot together with a person with traumatic brain injury and her care personnel. During this process, we learned that while current research describe reminding as a prototypical task for socially assistive robots, there is no clear definition of what constitutes a reminder nor that it is based on complex sequences of interactions that evolve over time and space, across different actions, actors and technologies. Based on our data from the co-creation process and the first deployment, we argue for a shift towards a sequential and socially distributed character of reminding. Understanding socially assistive robots as rehabilitative tools for people with memory impairment, they need to be reconsidered as interconnected elements in institutional care practices instead of isolated events for the remindee.

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When a notification at the right time is not enough: the reminding process for socially assistive robots in institutional care

Rehm,

Krummheuer

2024

Front. Robot. AI

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“…Pepper is 120cm tall, and Nao is 58cm when fully standing. These SARs have been studied previously with older adults and related ageing conditions [40], [41]. They were chosen due to their difference in embodiment (e.g., physical appearance, speech), as well as the similarities in the tactile sensors/bumpers (Figure 1) to have consistency in the task across the robots.…”

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Investigating the Usability of a Socially Assistive Robotic Cognitive Training Task with Augmented Sensory Feedback Modalities for Older Adults

Nault

Baillie

Broz

2022

2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Cognitive training is effective at retaining cognitive function and delaying decline for typically ageing older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and persons with dementia. Technological resources can address limiting factors that inhibit engagement and access to this treatment. We investigated how a socially assistive robot-facilitated memory task with sensory feedback was received by older adults. The impact of unimodal and multimodal administration of auditory and haptic feedback using two robot embodiments (Pepper and Nao) was evaluated in terms of user performance, usability, and workload. In contrast to sensory feedback research, auditory feedback resulted in significantly higher task accuracy. This was, however, supported by previous work from neurological literature. Auditory feedback also received significantly higher usability, and this preference was validated by qualitative feedback from participants. Regardless of robotic embodiment, this study demonstrates an advantage for auditory feedback (over haptic and multimodal) in cognitive training activities for older adults.

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Social Robots Acceptance and Marketability in Italy and Germany: A Cross-National Study Focusing on Assisted Living for Older Adults

Fracasso

Buchweitz

Theil

et al. 2022

Int J of Soc Robotics

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In the last years, social robots have become a trending topic. Indeed, robots which communicate with us and mimic human behavior patterns are fascinating. However, while there is a massive body of research on their design and acceptance in different fields of application, their market potential has been rarely investigated. As their future integration in society may have a vast disruptive potential, this work aims at shedding light on the market potential, focusing on the assistive health domain. A study with 197 persons from Italy (age: M = 67.87; SD = 8.87) and Germany (age: M = 62.15; SD = 6.14) investigates cultural acceptance, desired functionalities, and purchase preferences. The participants filled in a questionnaire after watching a video illustrating some examples of social robots. Surprisingly, the individual perception of health status, social status as well as nationality did hardly influence the attitude towards social robots, although the German group was somewhat more reluctant to the idea of using them. Instead, there were significant correlations with most dimensions of the Almere model (like perceived enjoyment, sociability, usefulness and trustworthiness). Also, technology acceptance resulted strongly correlated with the individual readiness to invest money. However, as most persons consider social robots as “Assistive Technological Devices” (ATDs), they expected that their provision should mirror the usual practices followed in the two Countries for such devices. Thus, to facilitate social robots’ future visibility and adoption by both individuals and health care organisations, policy makers would need to start integrating them into official ATDs databases.

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AMIGO—A Socially Assistive Robot for Coaching Multimodal Training of Persons with Dementia

Cited by 5 publications

References 41 publications

When a notification at the right time is not enough: the reminding process for socially assistive robots in institutional care

When a notification at the right time is not enough: the reminding process for socially assistive robots in institutional care

Investigating the Usability of a Socially Assistive Robotic Cognitive Training Task with Augmented Sensory Feedback Modalities for Older Adults

Social Robots Acceptance and Marketability in Italy and Germany: A Cross-National Study Focusing on Assisted Living for Older Adults

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